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  2. Dercum's disease - Wikipedia

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    Dercum's disease is a rare condition characterized by multiple painful fatty tumors, called lipomas, that can grow anywhere in subcutaneous fat across the body. [1] Sometimes referred as adiposis dolorosa in medical literature, Dercum’s disease is more of a syndrome than a disease (because it has several clinically recognizable features, signs, and symptoms that are characteristic of it and ...

  3. Lipoma - Wikipedia

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    Angiolipomas are painful subcutaneous nodules having all other features of a typical lipoma. [7]: 624 [9] Cerebellar pontine angle and internal auditory canal lipomas [10] Chondroid lipomas are deep-seated, firm, yellow tumors that characteristically occur on the legs of women. [7]: 625

  4. Panniculitis - Wikipedia

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    Panniculitis is a group of diseases whose hallmark is inflammation of subcutaneous adipose tissue (the fatty layer under the skin – panniculus adiposus). [1] Symptoms include tender skin nodules, and systemic signs such as weight loss and fatigue.

  5. Nodule (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Nodules are small firm lumps usually greater than 1 cm in diameter, found in skin and other organs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] If filled with fluid they are usually softer and referred to as cysts . [ 2 ] Smaller (less than 0.5 cm) raised soft tissue bumps may be termed papules .

  6. Cellulite - Wikipedia

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    Cellulite (/ s ɛ l j uː l aɪ t / ⓘ) or gynoid lipodystrophy (GLD) is the herniation of subcutaneous fat within fibrous connective tissue that manifests as skin dimpling and nodularity, often on the pelvic region (specifically the buttocks), lower limbs, and abdomen. [1] [2] Cellulite occurs in most postpubescent females. [3]

  7. Subcutaneous T-cell lymphoma - Wikipedia

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    Subcutaneous T-cell lymphoma (also known as a "panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma") is a cutaneous condition that most commonly presents in young adults, and is characterized by subcutaneous nodules. [ 1 ] : 739 Common symptoms include fever, fatigue, and pancytopenia .

  8. Liposarcoma - Wikipedia

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    Adipose tissues are distributed throughout the body, including such sites as the deep and more superficial layers of subcutaneous tissues as well as in less surgically accessible sites like the retroperitoneum (i.e. space behind the abdominal cavity) and visceral fat inside the abdominal cavity.

  9. Benign symmetric lipomatosis - Wikipedia

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    Type IV (abdominal type): abdomen. In 2018, a new classification was proposed, as most of the patients in the largest German study of that time did not reliably fit into the Donhauser classification system. Schiltz and others at the University Hospital Regensburg proposed the disease to be classified into five types: [4] Type I (Upper body) Ia ...